The trip up North ..... Penang Part I

And so, after waking up at five in the morning, rushed to the office, loaded the van up and we're ready for the Penang trip. We had to be there by nine in the morning for reasons unknown, which later, we found out, we could be there by midnight and it wouldn't even make any difference. This was because all the contractors were late.

Late as in behind schedule for the renovations.

And today, if everything was according to schedule, we should be relocating the phone system in a office complete with furniture, air-cons, and devoid of any other living being (except for the customer, of course). Unfortunately, yes, you guessed right. It was everything in one day. The staff could not move their belongings as the network was not ready. The network was not ready because the cables cannot be laid (and someone cut some of them which means we have to lay them again). And the cables cannot be laid because the furniture was not ready. The furniture was not ready because.... well, you get the picture. But the time we started real work, it was after ten at night, just when the customer was about to collapse and call it a day.

Since we had to wake up so early, I decided to risk itand pecked at my three week old Delicia bread. Yes,they're still edible and for RM4.00, my meals areabout 27 sen a day. Ha ha ha. No ler, there were notenough slices to last me more than a week. Its justthat I tend to keep them that long in case I do nothave enough (time or $$$) for lunch on that day.

Throughout the journey, we saw the Sun rise and alsosome wonderful scenery. But this picture is not it sinceit was my turn to drive, I could not take much pictures.

We're going to relocate their phonesystems to this room and also setup their computer network system

Booked a room at The Kristal Suites which costs a bombtwo years ago. Its big. And there is Internet connectiontoo but I forgot to take the Network cable with me.....

Since there is only one bed and I do not want my tech toget the wrong feelings, I opted for the sofa. Did I mentionthat there are two TVs too? Not bad for RM150/night!

This is as much we could do by midnight because theair-con guy was working in there. Had an amazingdinner in Bkt Jambul. Amazing because we tookalmost three quarters of rice in their rice cooker,got some vege, meat and drink, yet it only costs usRM8.00 in total. We were so shocked, that we keptlooking at each other. Oh, since I gave her a tenringgit note, I told her to keep the change. Shesmiled and got too friendly after that, so wequickly drove off. OK, I lied about the last part.We just drove off, made a U-turn and into atraffic jam caused a by an accident a few minutes

near where we ate, and the ambulances werealready there. weird

And as we trogged back to the Hotel, we realisedout rooms were very very far from the lifts......